How do I run a VM within a VM with separate IPs accessible on a local network?@Zoredache I need to replicate Administrator activity on the second VM via the GUI, not command line. There also can be no processes running or network connections established to the machine in order to accomplish this. It needs to appear to be a standalone box where a Administrator physically logs on and starts performing random administrative activities via the GUI. Does this make sense?

How do I run a VM within a VM with separate IPs accessible on a local network?@joeqwerty Ok so I have the first VM with IP address 192.168.162.1, the VM inside of it has IP address 192.168.162.2. Both have been statically assigned. I also regenerated the MAC addresses so that they are different since the 2nd VM was a clone of the first. On my physical Host machine I statically assigned IP address 192.168.162.3. What I want to be able to do is ping 192.168.162.2 from 192.168.162.3. However there is no response.

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How do I run a VM within a VM with separate IPs accessible on a local network?@Darth Android So yes, I have successfully ran a VM withing another VM using VM Player. I even successfully ran the Auto Hotkey script on the first VM which performed typical Administrative functions on the second VM which did not show up in the process list of the second VM. So that part I know I can do, and it works. However I'm currently doing it on my laptop, not the ESX server. My first VM only has 3GB of RAM and the second one is using 1GB of that RAM. I also assigned the first one 2 processors, then gave the second one 1 of those processors. It runs slow, but it runs.